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The Fiction Addiction
Tangled Family Traumas: Long Island Compromise
I wanted to read this because I’d absolutely loved Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel, Fleishman is in Trouble, but I didn’t like Long Island Compromise nearly as much. Long Island Compromise starts out with the direct warning that this is a story with a terrible ending, and then explains how the the father of a wealthy family is kidnapped and held for ransom. But the book’s not a thriller or a mystery, it’s the story of how this kidnapping creates a trauma that ripples out through the family, and also how this trauma is the result of the previous generation’s traumas and the previous generation’s choices.
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